About the Project

OuUnPo is an international research network made up of artists, curators and researchers who together look at the boundaries of performance by appropriating and stretching the language of workshops, seminars and meetings. For each session a group travels to a different city and investigates a given problem. We interact with local institutions and creators.

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

The Fugue - OuUnPo Research Session XIV STOCKHOLM | 4-8 FEBRUARY 2015

The European artistic network OuUnPo
invites you to the Fugue, an experimental festival in collaboration
with Swedish artists, researchers and institutions. Each day OuUnPo
carries out actions, talks, screenings, workshops and performances in
different venues and locations across the city of Stockholm.

The
session takes its starting point in the fugue state, a rare psychiatric
disorder that is characterized by complete but reversible amnesia. The
patient loses all traces of personal memory and identity and condition
can last hours or days. People suffering from dissociative fugue often
undertakes unplanned travel or wandering during which the patient might
establish a temporary new identity.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 6Atalanta Regrediens
9:30 – 12:00Hallwylska Museet, Hamngatan 4
Parallel Performative Tours with Elias Arner and Per Hüttner about
decision making and Marco Pasi on the occult. Limited number of places
and BOOKING ESSENTIAL: susanne.ewerlof@gmail.com

Arts of Fugue
18:00 – 20:00Italian Cultural Institute, Gärdesgatan 14
Performative Lecture by dr. Laszlo Harmat about the brain and music
along with solo piano performance of Bach fugues. Please RSVP to
annakarin.bobeck@esteri.it

The event will include presentations of the ArtResLab project, a
summery and reflection on the art-science collaborations of the Fugue,
along with conversations about the visions, problematics and future of
art-science collaborations.

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The Fugue is the 14th session that OuUnPo
organizes and will allow art and science to enter into a novel
dialogue. It will start a new chapter in the group's history marking the
return to Europe after ambitious sessions in Beirut (2012), Tokyo
(2013) and Sao Paulo (2014). The Stockholm session is structured as a
polyphonic music formula including interventions by scientists, visual
artists, musicians, philosophers, researchers and curators.

We
will open the week together with the exhibition Artists Adrift at
Bonniers konsthall, where we will explore our overlapping themes in
conversations with the participating artists, as well presenting sound
installations by Elena Nemkova and Natasha Rosling.

Psychiatrist
and neuroscientist Predrag Petrovic will give a public lecture on how
we perceive our constantly changing reality at the disused nuclear power
plant 30 meters underneath the Royal Institute of Technology, followed
by a course on escapism through screenings of short movies curated by
Elena Nemkova.

Italian
artist Jacopo Miliani who is artist-in-residence at MDT has created a
dance universe together with Jean-Louis Huhta, Sanna Söderholm and
Carima Neusser. He will present the outcome at the Dance Museum. The
piece will deceive our vision and explore how we function in darkness.

At
the Italian Cultural Institute music psychologist and neuroscientist
Laszlo Harmat will lecture on the parallels between the fugue and the
organization of the brain, followed by a musical performance of a Bach
fugue by Anna Buchenhorst of the Stockholm Royal Opera and much, much
more!

Each
event is freestanding and self-contained so that you as a visitor can
choose to attend a single activity, a whole day or the entire session.

The
festival creates a collage of events as it moves across the city. The
participation of local contributors, spaces, institutions and audiences
will offer opportunities for new alliances and generate unexpected and
novel constellations.

OuUnPo
invites you on a journey through well-known places, where identities
can be dissolved and merged only to re-appear to give new light to
age-old problems.

As an integrated part of OuUnPo's
Stockholm Session in Stockholm Naïvité will present a freestanding
event and the first part of the curatorial project Dream of the Palace
later this spring. Inspired by ancient memory techniques, an
experiential lab session will be given, where topics of imagination,
dwellings and identity are to be explored with all senses.

Organizers///////////////////

The session is curated by Stephen Whitmarsh with Eléna Nemkova with curatorial assistance by Susanne Ewerlöf.